Thanks to BoingBoing for turning us on to NY artist Candy Chang’s literal street art project.  Her direct questions that take the form of psychiatric prompts are the simple forms that can be found around town on the ground.

CC website // CC Flickr

As Thursday is the opening day at Art Now Fair, our Silver Lake gallery friends GhettoGloss and Flaunt Magazine have teamed up to throw a kickoff party [open to the public] Thursday night from 11pm-4am.

Found will be in Room #314; GhettoGloss is in #212. You are all invited.

As some of you have already gathered, Found is in New York right now, and we’re spending some of our spare time art hopping to different studios.  If you’d like us to stop by your place, please contact submissions@foundgallery.com to set up an appointment.

It appears there has been some thievery going on, New York. We’ll be sure to frisk people at the door when Found is there very soon.

From the internet:

“Greetings everyone,

It is with deep regret that we issue this announcement regarding a second incidence of theft at Jonathan LeVine Gallery.

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Found is participating in its first art fair, at the end of this month. It’s Art Now Fair NY, taking place during the Armory and all those other fairs. The people at Art Now have just published the list of other exhibiting galleries, and we’ve broken them down by area. Check them out [after the jump].

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‘Bio Mapping is a participatory methodology for people to talk about their immediate environment, locality and communal space. I’m trying to use 3D visualisation as a way of talking about the space. It’s not representational.’

UK teacher/activist/artist/modern busy person Christian Nold recently completed the San Francisco emotion map, a process which he has invented and tested already in Greenwich. If I understand the process, he basically blindfolds subjects and has them guided around different public spaces, all the while being hooked up to a lie-detector, tracking the subject’s response to urban stimuli.

He has predetermined categories, something like ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ that describe the body’s reaction to specific places. Then he creates a map of his subjects’ paths, with color coordinated labels based on their bodies’ reactions. Nold is supremely concerned with effects of globalization/development/urban anarchy and is actively creating new research in the fields of sensory politics and sensory pollution.

Mr. Nold stays incredibly busy with his various projects, and, good for us, he processes and shares information very reliably. Check below for links and click on the image above to see the flow chart he made to describe himself.

download the San Francisco data as KMZ / Softhook.com [all of his projects] / Nold on Flickr

Painter/filmmaker/photographer/drawer/video artist Jeremy Blake has been missing since Tuesday, shortly after his girlfriend Theresa Duncan committed suicide. Since his clothes were found on a beach and combing of the waters has found no trace of him, many believe Blake is gone.

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Mr. Jeff McMillan is showing an all-new collection of psychotic, but soothing, new paintings at New York’s Fuse Gallery, entitled ‘Some Dispute Over the Color of Hats, and How Outsiders Cope.’   The opening reception is this Saturday [june 9, 7-1opm].  Visit the Fuse site for more details.

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One song (piece of art) a week + self-distribution

The Micro Gestalt show (shown at Found in January-February) recently franchised out to New York’s 207 Gallery (the photo on the site is from the Found Installation). Like Matt Maust’s December show which saw permeations in New York & London (and like the Joint Custody Project, which the Gem crew seems to be appropriating or building on…more on that soon), Micro Gestalt has seen life in the hierarchal art capitol of the States. Airom Bleicher, who headed the MG project, wrote this in an email to me recently:

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